Some new items from T-Repro. I can't imagine how much room I'd need to do some diorama's like this. It is probably the only kind of "high rail" I'd ever consider doing though...
Marc
Showing posts with label High Rail. Show all posts
Showing posts with label High Rail. Show all posts
Thursday, November 13, 2008
Friday, October 31, 2008
Surveys....
Happy Halloween Everyone,
You've noticed I put up a balasting survey. Part of the question comes as needing info for myself and part of it comes from wanting to find out how much high rail has seeped into our end of the hobby.
There's another survey from Vizu that I though I would try out that asks a whole bunch of random questions. This kind of irritated me because it asks too many personal questions (it wasn't positioned that way on the Vizu site) and I am having trouble backing out the HTML. Technically it's a hassle. I'll leave it up for a while, if anyone completely hates it let me know and I'll attempt to yank it. Otherwise you can answer or not, no confidential data will be gathered. I'll talk to my buddy Matt and figure out how to untangle it from the blog.... Should have learned my lesson from before about just keeping this to toy trains!
Marc
You've noticed I put up a balasting survey. Part of the question comes as needing info for myself and part of it comes from wanting to find out how much high rail has seeped into our end of the hobby.
There's another survey from Vizu that I though I would try out that asks a whole bunch of random questions. This kind of irritated me because it asks too many personal questions (it wasn't positioned that way on the Vizu site) and I am having trouble backing out the HTML. Technically it's a hassle. I'll leave it up for a while, if anyone completely hates it let me know and I'll attempt to yank it. Otherwise you can answer or not, no confidential data will be gathered. I'll talk to my buddy Matt and figure out how to untangle it from the blog.... Should have learned my lesson from before about just keeping this to toy trains!
Marc
Tuesday, June 17, 2008
Bigguest High Rail Layout EVER!
Ok, for a minute, forget about standard gauge. I know it is hard, just try for 30 seconds. I was in Amersterdam last week (that's right, the Netherlands) and I went to this place called "Madurodam".
The place is essentially a huge model of Amsterdam in 1:25 scale. I took a bunch of pictures. It's essentially the best modeling I have ever seen. It's also a huge train layout. It has boats in real water that really move, cars that move, airports with planes that taxi on the runway, trolleys and trains (commuter and freight). And tons of little people.
What makes it so good? Well, it is huge for starters. I posted the link above. I'll post some Youtubes as well. The attention to detail is spectacular. Bar none, I've never seen such a spectacular achievement and attention to detail. And it works here; this isn't modeling a part or a chunk out of a time and "just" a place. This is modeling a whole city with buildings that are brand new and buildings that are hundreds and hundreds of years old. I had a chance to compare the models to the real buildings and they were spot on.
I know, it's a larger scale so it is easier. This is a couple of acres of modeling though and they did virtually the whole city including canals with everything moving.
Only one thing kind of spooked me: they had real fish in the water. And not little gold fish but some larger fish like Bass and Trout. Maybe even a catfish. Seeing those suckers swimming around in such juxtaposed with such a detailed little city was kind of un-nerving.
Oh yes, and I had the best eclair in their cafe I think I've ever had in my life. The only downside was that with the dollar so weak right now and the Euro pretty strong it costs a huge chunk of change to get to this place. If you are in Europe on an expense account or doing some corporate travel I'd recommend this or if you are retired and plan these kinds of trips. With some planning the cash outlay can be minimal, spur of the moment is like buying box seats at a Yankee or Red Sox game.....
It's fantastic and if you get a chance to leave the US of A and want to see an amazing spread and get some great ideas, you need to check this out.
I've never seen a working lift bridge like this one, not over real water no-less. And I've never seen a working model boat pass under the bridge and than double back!!!
By the way, the 3rd picture down is a scale, working water lock. I was dumbfounded when I saw this thing actually work.
Marc
The place is essentially a huge model of Amsterdam in 1:25 scale. I took a bunch of pictures. It's essentially the best modeling I have ever seen. It's also a huge train layout. It has boats in real water that really move, cars that move, airports with planes that taxi on the runway, trolleys and trains (commuter and freight). And tons of little people.
What makes it so good? Well, it is huge for starters. I posted the link above. I'll post some Youtubes as well. The attention to detail is spectacular. Bar none, I've never seen such a spectacular achievement and attention to detail. And it works here; this isn't modeling a part or a chunk out of a time and "just" a place. This is modeling a whole city with buildings that are brand new and buildings that are hundreds and hundreds of years old. I had a chance to compare the models to the real buildings and they were spot on.
I know, it's a larger scale so it is easier. This is a couple of acres of modeling though and they did virtually the whole city including canals with everything moving.
Only one thing kind of spooked me: they had real fish in the water. And not little gold fish but some larger fish like Bass and Trout. Maybe even a catfish. Seeing those suckers swimming around in such juxtaposed with such a detailed little city was kind of un-nerving.
Oh yes, and I had the best eclair in their cafe I think I've ever had in my life. The only downside was that with the dollar so weak right now and the Euro pretty strong it costs a huge chunk of change to get to this place. If you are in Europe on an expense account or doing some corporate travel I'd recommend this or if you are retired and plan these kinds of trips. With some planning the cash outlay can be minimal, spur of the moment is like buying box seats at a Yankee or Red Sox game.....
It's fantastic and if you get a chance to leave the US of A and want to see an amazing spread and get some great ideas, you need to check this out.
I've never seen a working lift bridge like this one, not over real water no-less. And I've never seen a working model boat pass under the bridge and than double back!!!
By the way, the 3rd picture down is a scale, working water lock. I was dumbfounded when I saw this thing actually work.
Marc
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